noun
definition
A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
definition
A stick or staff taken from this tree.
Examples of blackthorn in a Sentence
A third species, the common sloe or blackthorn, P. spinosa, has stout spines; its flowers expand before the leaves; and its fruit is very rough to the taste, in which particulars it differs from the two preceding.
The scrub understorey includes guelder rose, blackthorn and bramble.
The blackthorn, wild fig, trembling aspen, and other ' crossed ' wood are avoided.
Along the edge of the wood elder, blackthorn, holly and gorse grow, sometimes draped in old man's beard.
It includes blackthorn, hawthorn, dog rose and other plants which should offer a rich habitat to hedgerow birds such as song thrushes.
Other major work will be the removal of encroaching blackthorn and bramble scrub from the western end of the southern boundary of the common.
Come along for an hour or two and really make a difference by helping to remove encroaching dogwood and blackthorn regeneration.
This shrub layer may include hazel, hawthorn or blackthorn.
Hedges of hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose, hazel and guelder rose have also been planted.
Popular food plants include holly, ivy, cabbage, nasturtium, honesty, long grasses, cuckoo flower, blackthorn.
The blackthorn's fruit is the sloe, but in its raw state, it is virtually inedible.
Hawthorn and blackthorn scrub has covered areas of the banks turning them into a haven for warblers and spotted flycatcher.
Farther east and north comes the Turkestan pine (Picea Schrenkiana), while at lower levels there grow willows, black and white poplars, tamarisk, Celtis, as well as Elaeagnus (wild olive), Hippophae rhamnoides (sallow thorn), Rubus fructicosus (blackberry), Prunus spinosa (blackthorn) and P. A rmeniaca (apricot).
Without magic wand or tasseled hat, I pour perfection with Blackthorn - " just like that " !
Oral preparations may include extracts of hawthorn berry, blackthorn, or licorice root, while topical preparations to relieve itching typically include licorice or German chamomile.